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EXPERIMENTS WITH TOBACCO. 
the two-thirds acre in 1888, yet the net results arc rela¬ 
tively greater in 1889. 
It will also be seen that this year’s crop has a much 
lighter leaf than the tobacco raised in 1888, as it weighed 
1,000 pounds more green, but over 100 pounds less 
when cured. 
[Extract from report of 1889, Section of Botany and 
Horticulture.] 
